{"id":372,"date":"2009-03-25T07:29:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T14:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/?p=372"},"modified":"2009-03-25T18:55:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T01:55:09","slug":"only-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Halve The National Debt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t blogged recently as the necessities of keeping our business going has had to take preference. <\/p>\n<p>Today I have a small break and need to comment on Obama&#8217;s answer to the question of his increasing the National Debt.<\/p>\n<p>To no surprise he typically blamed the other guy and then phrased his reply as to mislead the listener. <\/p>\n<p>First he stated that he &#8220;inherited a huge debt from George Bush&#8221;, true $1.3 trillion dollars, (picture a stack of $100 dollar bills over 615 miles high) then he said his plan (if successful) would reduce the national debt 50% in FIVE YEARS, lets say that&#8217;s true as well. We are led to believe he is reducing George Bush&#8217;s administration&#8217;s debt while &#8220;saving&#8221; the economy. Hurray Obama!<\/p>\n<p>What he didn&#8217;t say is that he is increasing the National Debt to $9 trillion dollars (picture a stack of $100 dollar bills over 4,261 MILES HIGH &#8211; Latest estimates are approaching $11 trillion dollars &#8211; 5,208 miles high). Obama then claims he will reduce that debt by 50% to $4.5 trillion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that even if Obama&#8217;s plan works the National debt will be three and one half times (3 1\/2 ), or a stack of $100 dollar bills <strong>1515 miles higher <\/strong>than the debt he &#8220;inherited&#8221;! &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>Will he ever speak the truth, I doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t blogged recently as the necessities of keeping our business going has had to take preference. Today I have a small break and need to comment on Obama&#8217;s answer to the question of his increasing the National Debt. To no surprise he typically blamed the other guy and then phrased his reply as to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nationalpolitics","category-nationwide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}